[Dxbase] Re: Dxbase posting

[Peter Dougherty]

Hi,

With regard to your posting to the DX Base reflector, might I please ask a 
small favour of you?

You obviously receive messages in "digest" form, same as I do.There's 
really no need to leave the entire digest you received in when you reply. 
It makes retrieving mail very difficult for others who use dial-up and have 
a lot of mail, and it also makes your message extremely difficult to read 
and understand.

Every mail program allows the sender to highlight the un-necessary parts of 
a message that's being replied to and delete them, although I admit 
sometimes it's a little intimidating if you're not used to doing it.

In answer to your question, when I run my backups (nightly, in my case), I 
just backup the entire DX Base folder along with all the critical system 
files and other important stuff of each of my computers. Depending on what 
hardware you have in your shack, you can do this any one of a number of 
ways -- via CD-Rom, ZIP disk, or , as in my case, a tape drive. If you have 
a second computer in the house, it can even be made to backup one computer 
to a drive on another (my "last line of defense" is to do this).

Taking of my "ham radio" hat and putting on my professional "sysadmin" hat 
for a minute, you really do need to put a serious backup plan in place for 
your data, especially if you have lots of data, or if the computer you use 
for DX Base also houses important non-radio stuff as well. I do this stuff 
for a living, and the number of times I've seen grown adults on the verge 
of tears when they've suffered a hard drive crash and lost everything is 
pretty staggering.

Good luck with DX Base, and good DX! If I can help out in any way, please 
don't hesitate to ask.



73 de W2IRT
Peter Dougherty

pjd at panix.com


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